In the Wuying Palace, there was a dead silence at this time.

After a long time, the Empress Dowager Bu Mu Butai finally opened her mouth, "Zhuqing's family, is the new musket really as sharp as Shen Zhiyuan said in the palace?" ”

Since Bumu Butai is hidden behind the scenes in the Taihe Palace, he naturally will not appear outside the palace gate to watch.

Hong Chengchou was silent and nodded slowly.

Yue Le responded: "Back to the Queen Mother, although there is not much difference between what Shen Zhiyuan said, the minister is sure that the musket is not enough to restrain my iron horse. It's just that the step bow is afraid of ...... But in Chen's opinion, as long as the front armor is thickened, it is thought that it can block the projectile. ”

Later, the sound became quieter and quieter.

Looking at Yue Le's spitting appearance, Bu Mu Butai completely understood, and even Yue Le didn't deny it, I was afraid that it was really as Shen Zhiyuan said.

Bu Mu Butai asked, "Then does the Zhuqing family have a way to deal with it?" ”

Fan Wencheng said: "If you want to say that there are two ways to deal with it, one is as Shen Zhiyuan said, immediately conquer the Yixing Dynasty, and destroy it in one fell swoop while it is not yet full-fledged." The second is that our dynasty also trained musketeers and formed musketeers far greater than those of the Yixing Dynasty, so that the Yixing Dynasty would not threaten our dynasty. ”

Yue Le's spirits perked up, and he said loudly: "The minister is willing to lead the army south to help the regent defeat the Yixing Dynasty." ”

Qi Chongge said coldly: "If you can defeat the Yixing Dynasty, you don't need Zhenguo Gong to lead the army to the battle, the 150,000 troops under the regent have already gone south, besides, there are only 30,000 Eight Banner Army in the capital, if you take it away, who will garrison the capital?" ”

Gualga, who is also in the same vein as Dolgon? Ganglin (Zhenghuangqi, University of the National Academy of History), echoed: "The regent previously suggested peace talks with the Yixing Dynasty, thinking that he had already realized that our dynasty would not be able to defeat the Yixing Dynasty for a while, and if it fell into a protracted war again, I am afraid that our dynasty would not be able to support the war in the northwest and southeast. ”

Feng Quan, a scholar of the Inner Han Lin Hongwen Academy and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites (the former scholar of the Ming Dynasty Rite Department and a scholar of the Dongge University, after the Qing Dynasty, was awarded a scholar of the Inner Han Lin Hongwen Academy and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites) also echoed: "Now Prince Zheng and General Zhengnan nearly 30,000 troops are trapped in the south of the Yangtze River, and there is no mobilization army along the north coast of the Jiangbei, even if the regent goes south, he will inevitably be intercepted by the Taixing Wu Zheng Department, and he will not be able to quickly cross the river for reinforcements. ”

Only Hong Chengchou was silent.

Bu Mu Butai had to ask by name: "Does the Hong Qing family have a good way to deal with it?" ”

Only then did Hong Chengchou raise his head and said, "The minister can't think of a good way to deal with it for a while. Kechen just watched the musket shooting, and also tested the armor hit by the musket, the musket was indeed sharp, but at a distance of one hundred and fifty paces, the accuracy was insufficient, the minister roughly counted, thirty musketeers fired sixteen rounds, but the bullet holes of several pieces of armor were far less than half of the projectiles fired. Therefore, the minister felt that regardless of whether the musketeers could really play a role in defeating the enemy on the battlefield and forming a new musket army...... There is no hurry. Besides, our dynasty's financial resources cannot support the formation of a large musket army for the time being, and the regent has to be asked about this matter. The minister thought that it was more important to decide whether the war with the Yixing Dynasty would be a war or a peace. ”

Bumu Butai silently savored Hong Chengchou's words, Hong Chengchou first admitted the sharpness of the musket, which was not denied by almost everyone, and then Hong Chengchou rejected the proposal to form a new army immediately, and then, Hong Chengchou mentioned that the formation of a new army requires the approval of the regent, and finally pointed out that the most important thing at the moment is to decide whether to fight or peace.

Bumu Butai tasted a different taste, she looked at Fu Lin and asked, "What does the emperor mean?" ”

Actually, it's just a gesture.

At this time, Fulin was not in charge of the government, and the military and political affairs of the DPRK and China were all decided by Dolgon and Bumubutai.

But at this time, Fu Lin showed unexpected stubbornness, perhaps because of Dorgon's absence, he said in a deep voice: "I think that we should immediately form a musket army. ”

These words made Bumu Butai's face sink, and she pursed her lips tightly, as if a storm was coming.

Although Fulin said that he was not pro-governmental, he really spoke, and he really couldn't pretend not to hear it.

After the death of Huang Taiji, Fulin ascended the throne at a young age, this military and political matter, even adults can't bear it, let alone a child?

Coupled with Dolgon's domineering and Bumubutai's high pressure, there is a strong rebellious psychology in Fulin's heart.

After four years of repression, in Dorgon's absence, Fulin finally showed his edge.

He had seen the power of the musket with his own eyes, so he urgently needed a strong army that could only listen to his orders to fight against the growing power of Dolgon and the high pressure of Bumu Butai.

Fulin chose the musketeers.

After being stunned for a moment, Hong Chengchou hurriedly advised: "Your Majesty, the cost of musketeers is huge, even if it is on par with the Guangyi Xing Dynasty, it will take at least millions of taels to form an army of 30,000 people, and our dynasty is not able to produce ammunition for this new type of musket, so we have to buy it from Hongmaoyi, I'm afraid it will ...... At present, the treasury is tight, and I hope the emperor will think twice. ”

If at this time, most of the Manchu generals were loyal to Dolgon, then most of the Han ministers of the Qing Dynasty were loyal to Fulin.

This is indeed a bit strange, it stands to reason, at this time Dolgon is powerful, there is a great possibility of seizing the throne, how should the Qing Hanchen be loyal to Dolgon, but the Hanchen led by Hong Chengchou obeyed the will of Huang Taiji and was loyal to Fulin.

In Hong Chengchou's heart, he really regarded Fulin as his disciple, taught Dun Dun, and often instilled the concept of sages.

Not to mention, maybe because of the young age, the child, easy to shape, Fulin does not attach importance to the difference between Manchu and Han, but agrees with Hong Chengchou's concept, adopts the strategy of pampering and suppressing externally, and implements the Huairou policy of "recruiting and subduing chaos".

Internally, last month, Fulin set up six Han Shangshu and the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Procuratorate, and at the same time promulgated a law that allowed Manchu and Han intermarriages and mutual marriage between officials and citizens.

Unfortunately, although this law of Manchu-Han intermarriage was promulgated, it was secretly resisted by Dolgon and his loyal Manchu ministers, and there has not been a single precedent so far.

This already made Fu Lin very dissatisfied, and the fact that he was killed by Dolgon before and killed Prince Hauge of Su made Fu Lin's resentment even worse.

At this time, Dorgon was not there, and Fulin played with his temperament.

He said to Hong Chengchou: "All the princes are sharp muskets, and I want to form musketeers to defend Gyeonggi, also for the sake of the Qing Dynasty." If it was only for the sake of spending a lot of money, it was entirely possible to first form a musket battalion of 10,000 or even thousands of men, so that it could quickly expand to tens of thousands of men when it was well trained and the treasury was in full swing. ”

These words made Bu Mu Butai a little surprised, and she looked at Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou's heart moved, in fact, he also had this idea, but he preferred to reorganize Shen Zhiyuan's department and incorporate it into his command, of course, Hong Chengchou was also preparing for Fulin's pro-government.